The Ohio Parole Board says Spisak does not accept responsibility for his actions.The Ohio Parole Board has unanimously rejected a mercy plea by convicted killer and Nazi sympathizer Frank Spisak of Cleveland.
Spisak, 59, is scheduled to be executed on Feb. 17. He would be the 1st to die under the watch of Gov. John Kasich unless the Republican governor grants clemency.
The board, in a 9-0 decision, said that Spisak's argument that his life should be spared because his case was not "the worst of the worst" is invalid.
"Spisak killed 3 people, tried to kill at least 1 other, and shot at a 5th in his admitted plan to kill as many African Americans as possible and start a race war in Cleveland," the board said. "His victims were innocent, unsuspecting strangers."
The board said Spisak, who once asked the state to pay for a sex-change operation when he was in prison, does not accept responsibility for his actions and continues to blame others.
Kasich, who supports the death penalty, has the ultimate clemency power to spare Spisak's life, grant a reprieve for a period, or allow the execution to go forward.
Spisak committed the murders in 1982 on the campus of Cleveland State University. He blamed mental illness for his actions.
Source: Columbus Dispatch, January 21, 2011
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